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  • Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which are volcanic in origin; ...
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  • Pacific Ocean state have a total land area of 92.7 square miles (240 sq km). National defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation ...
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  • Cowell's willingness to be open to a multitude of musical influences ... Recognizing the importance of musical cultures outside his own he ...
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  • Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...
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  • instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings, usually ... as a solo instrument as well as being part of a larger section or entity ...
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  • is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Kabuki theater is known ... The term kabuki originally suggested the unorthodox character of this ...
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  • June 3, 1953, with inventing the modern game of baseball. Abner Doubleday was once credited with the invention of baseball, ...
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  • Bribery is a crime involving a sum of money or an item given in order ... offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence ...
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  • for the New York Yankees. He was the brother of Vince DiMaggio and Dom DiMaggio ... with which he played the game. At the time of his retirement at age 36, he ...
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  • The trio of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash are a folk ... the charts in 1970. They produced a string of mellow, well-harmonized, message ...
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  • Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces ... theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while ...
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  • 1872 – August 22, 1943) is the pen-name of Shimazaki Haruki, a Japanese ... to establish himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature ...
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  • and songwriter, an iconic figure in country music, and one of the most influential ... and performances were the direct offspring of the trauma of his private life ...
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  • in the 1960s and 1970s. Gaye's soul music performances were unique ... the 1960s, working within the constraints of the creatively restrictive ...
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  • American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... It is a destination spot of many vacationers due to its seasonally ...
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  • Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane ... influence on successive generations of saxophonists. Along with tenor ...
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  • author, (waka) poet, essayist, and critic of Japanese vernacular poetry ... Kamo no Chomei is best known as a classic example of a man of artistic ...
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  • writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans ...
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  • seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family (中華絃樂噐 ... While certain rules of acoustics were followed in the construction ...
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  • , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia ...
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